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Tracing Family
In the 1700s the Mowbray family farmed Cassop Smithy, Little Pittington. I would be very grateful if anyone out there could tell me where exactly this building stood. I can only guess it is what is now Old Smithy Farm. Regards Anne Bell annemowbray@yahoo.co.uk
A memory of Old Cassop by
Family Buisness
What a coincidence, as around 1910 the Smithy was owned and run by My Grandfather also named James ,(a family tradition) there exists a buisness directory in the longshop Museum ,listing many Leiston Buisnesses, showing a picture ...Read more
A memory of Leiston by
Black Smith
I remember a black smith in Barkingside which used to be next door or near the police station. We used to watch the old smithy shoeing horses etc. Does any body else remember the old smithy? David Trasler
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Wentworth County Primary School
As far as I can see, no-one has left a memory of my old primary school. So, let me start this off (if I may?): Living in nearby North Road, I attended this school from 1962-68. When I started at the Infants' School, ...Read more
A memory of Dartford by
War Memorial
There are 3 Hills on the memorial, but they're only dad's cousins, his father and 2 uncles came back from the trenches. Grandad (another Bill Hill, like dad) was always in the Legion and Gt Uncle Harry (who lived in Chalvey with his ...Read more
A memory of Cippenham in 1950 by
The Under Road
The space between the houses and shed was the beginning or the end of the Under Road, it went round to the other side of the village, and finished opposite the chapel on Main Street, a nice walk or bike ride in the summer, or a short ...Read more
A memory of Halton in 1950 by
The Canal
Hi,my name is Stephen Smith, I lived in Regent Crescent through the 50s and 60s. I guess you all remember the Rochdale canal that runs through Failsworth. What a great place to spend your time. Who needed Disneyland. We used to fish, make ...Read more
A memory of Failsworth by
The War Years
Hi I'm Mike Foster and I was born in Chalfont St Peter in Feb 1936. My mother who had two children; me and my sister, had no where to live. She was offered by some charitable source a two up two down home on the main road ...Read more
A memory of Chalfont St Peter in 1940 by
The Old Blacksmith's (The Smithy)
Born in 1943 and living in 'Washington Station' (now Columbia). I remember watching horses being shod here many times, when I was a child. I still remember the fierce heat from the furnace, with the Blacksmith and the horses wringing wet with sweat.
A memory of Washington in 1950 by
The Mystery Bridge Across The Mill Brook In Baguley.
The Mystery Bridge across the Mill Brook in Baguley. I was born in September 1946 and lived in Overdale Road Benchill before moving to Fouracers Road in Baguley about 1951. The Lanes, Farms ...Read more
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The Old Smithy c1955.
The pantile-roofed building is a workshop or old smithy where a cart is being repaired.
The old post office, dated 1672, is now a residential cottage, but the Old Smithy, over to the right, is open as a needlework gallery.
To the right, just out of the picture, was the site of the old Smithy, now occupied by Goddard and Grants, a stockist of Francis Frith's prints.
The Hippodrome Cinema on Main Street replaced an old smithy, which was demolished in 1913.
At the junction of Old Road and the main road, the A271, was this entrepreneurial former village smithy.
Once the village smithy, the inn at Godmanstone is said to be the smallest public house in England.
The old smithy has been here since 1795 - it is still open, and now also houses a small museum.
It was on Goodworth Clatford that a flying bomb landed, destroying the old Royal Oak, the school, the smithy and a row of cottages.
Once the village smithy, the inn at Godmanstone is said to be the smallest public house in England.
Two white-collared Edwardian lads stand behind a trap outside the village smithy in the village which gave its name to the Hope Valley.
It was sold in 1875 for under £300, and the sale included the old smithy next door.
The village pump has been taken away, but the old smithy (centre), later a hearse house, remains.
The roots of tradition run deep here, and some old customs were observed until the 19th century.
WH Smith is the only business surviving on the same premises today, although with a modern shopfront and a plain blue and white sign rather than the old wrought iron one seen here.
WH Smith is the only business surviving on the same premises today, although with a modern shopfront and a plain blue and white sign rather than the old wrought iron one seen here.
WH Smith is the only business surviving on the same premises today, although with a modern shopfront and a plain blue and white sign rather than the old wrought iron one seen here.
The smithy stood there, and in Butts Lane was a tithe barn and turf dales at what was then called West End.
This old gateway in the 19th century gave access to the Taylors Arms, the building half-way up on the left, which was destroyed by fire in 1930.
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